Thread by @MartinaTruche

🧵🇨🇦🚀Some of my key takeaways from Day 2 of the 2022 Health Beyond Summit. Today's theme: #Health #Innovation
📅November 29 - December 1, 2022
🕙10 am - ~40 pm ET
🆓Registration, schedule, speakers: asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/events/202…

#HealthBeyondSummit #SpaceMedicine #Space #Medicine

1/ Susan MacLean Michel: IRAP’s Support & Vision for Canadian Health Innovation. Trends: digital twins, personalized medicine, genomics, genetic tests. Emerging: cell & gene therapies, monoclonal antibodies, biomanufacturing, mRNA vaccines, lipid nanoparticles, digital health, AI

2/ Showcase: Deep Space Healthcare Challenge, 20 semifinalists. CSA seeks novel diagnostic & detection solutions to support frontline health workers in remote communities NOW & later during longterm space missions. Community Advisor Program: to ensure techs are relevant & useful.

3/ Showcase: If you're interested in cutting-edge health innovations, I suggest to (re)watch the 20 stage 1 winners pitches. PS: My power went off when a wind blew in #Pittsburgh, I'll need to rewatch this part to catch all 20. Great to see some familiar faces - hi @shawnapandya

4/ Health Beyond Demonstration Project and Innovation Lab

5/ Interactive: Impact of CSA Funding on Early Technology Development. Can you answer w/o googling?
Q1: How many ears did it take humanity to reach the Moon after the 1st powered flight?
Q2: In which decade will humans land on Mars?

6/ @NASA #Technology #Taxonomy (TX). Where does *your* technology fit in this list?

Links w/ more info:

1) NASA Taxonomy nasa.gov/offices/oct/ta…

2) (TX06) NASA’s Technology Taxonomy specific to #Human #Health, #Life #Support, and #Habitation Systems: drive.google.com/file/d/1qp3xsf…

7/ TRL: Technololgy Readiness Level
- Initially developed by NASA
- Scale 1-9
- Mission environment: key driver of TRL for space exploration. (e.g. microgravity impacts. Fluids can be tricky in space.)
- Push towards high fidelity environment: orbit, Moon, Mars
- Risk reduction

8/ Technology roadmaps:
- Demand: key capabilities & mission needs & tech portfolio
- Global technology roadmap slide: How technologies may evolve over time.
- How can we fit into the roadmap of exploration, and how can we help Canada?

9/ Health needs will be becoming increasingly complex

10/ Panel: Changing the Narrative: Virtual Healthcare in Indigenous Communities

Amanda: Remote places in Canada: perfect environment to test the new strategies

David: Astronaut healthcare NOW: Extreme case of telehealth (~ISS); FUTURE: Extreme home care (~Mars)

#SpaceMedicine

11/ Ailsa Flynne TSAG:
- Important to support the ability of indigenous patients to stay in their communities ➡️community support
- Connectivity: critical to provide equitable healthcare to everybody regardless of location
- AI, wearables, housing support, 🔥mgmt, rural tech...

12/ Dr. Ivar Mendez:
- Slide w/ examples of remote portable systems in the field
- Autonomous robots work w/ regular & cell phone tech
- Help paramedics w/ initial assessment
-Communicate w/ rural hospitals & remote health stations
- Remote medicine center @ Uni of Saskatchewan

13/ Dr. Ivar Mendez:
- Maternal and infant mortality in North higher than in Southern Canada. New tech and remote healthcare - such as memote ultrasound scans - may help improve maternal and infant health
- Portable near-IR hematoma detection
- Telepalpation
- Remote monitoring

14/ Dr. Ivar Mendez:
- More cool tech visuals including robot inoculation w/o needles, robotic surgeries and remote healthcare/diagnostics
- One of the top indigenous priorities: mental health
- Triage decisions: radiology, location - hospital ambulance closest to the patient

15/ The group reiterated the need for patients to stay in the community.
- Amanda: Sometimes a child leaves w/o parents; Imagine no need to fly away
- Alisa: Make tech less work, not more!
- Problem: Nurse recruitment & retention
- Chief: Demonstrate overcoming systemic racism

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@threadreaderapp unroll: Day 2 selected summaries of the 2022 Health Beyond Summit on Nov 29-Dec 1 on #SpaceMedicine